BFD was fine in terms of difficulty (1 ability, usually executable by a single person = boss dead)
Gnome and ST are proper raids, that need coordination, and tactics.
Which is not what i signed up for, not what A LOT of people signed up for. SOD started great and then steadily declined, among other things, because of an increase in difficulty of the raid. (Phase 3 Launch was a hot mess since its conception, which was way too early to begin with, the way it then happened was even worse than its announcement)
Go back to beer and pretzels. BFD difficulty YAY, Gnome difficulty NAY. Leave anything harder than BFD in retail.
Like for real, if people want a simple game, why do they want more complex rotations. In era you can just press 1 button on pretty much every spec and collect loot.
In SoD you have much more buttons. Isn’t that too hard?
Before the nerfs eranikus was too hard(although i think thye should have kept it for at least the first ID). The rest felt like tyrannical bosses on retail without having to rotate defensives. Just 7 minute encounters with one mechanic
It’s a joke really. I still cant comprehend how there are so many people who find the raid hard. Like I could only imagine this to be hard for someone with down syndrome or missing few fingers/hand. How can these people function irl with responsibilities like work or even drive a car when this simple mechanic raid is too difficult
while i think that your choice of words isn’t appropriate i understand the sentiment.
And this happens if you never challenge yourself. you just lose your skill after time and you’re definetely not getting any more skilled. Simple as that
Agree, on my first run with a pug. First boss was oneshotted. Second boss two shotted. 3rd boss was two shotted. On 4th boss we was 19ppl cause one dcd and never came back, that was was two shotted aswell, this was done by a group of ppl where the majority knew nothing of the tacs, and never been even bothered trying to check any vids on the fights on YT , all tacs they got was from the raid leader writing short texts in raid chatt. This should not be made easier thats for sure. We couldent have kept going cause to many ppl left after the 4th claiming they had work and other thinsgs. But im sure it would have be n cleaned the first run
What is the point of all the new abilities if the bosses die too fast for you to use any abilities anyway?
Feels especially bad for classes with combo points.
Another thing is that those people who can’t clear the raids are only pressing 1 button anyway. if even, i saw so many logs where people are just doing nothing for 15 seconds.
Why don’t just play era where the game is like that? Why play a game mode where you have a little bit more complex rotations when you can’t even do 1 button rotations correctly
Gnome was easy and extremely boring, ST I think is fine, could be a bit more challanging tho but overall I like it more than gnomer. BFD was a lootpinata without any thought given to it…
Lots of groups still dying on second, third, fourth boss tho, they have far too much health currently.
“Normal” groups do 300-400 dps if not even less than that not 1400 like the logs say
Not seen a PuG reach the last 2 yet
Imo it just feels like people are judging the raid by their guild grp standards, When you play with PuGs it is not that easy to make it work.
Ofc everything is easy if people come prepared with Buffs, consumes and proper gear and class/rotation Knowledge and listen to voice, But that’s just not happening with pugs.